When the fines are less then profits earned by bad practice, the bad practice will continue.

They way to stop this is to file charges against the Chief Officers of Comcast + the Board of Directors. For each bill Comcast sent out containing a charge that Comcast mislead consumers about - One charge of fraud + one charge of conspiracy to commit fraud. After a few hundred thousand charges, the fines and time in jail start to add up to something that will serve as an example for other corporate leaders.

Legicritters at all levels want to avoid being on the wrong end of "folks who buy ink by the barrel" or the modern equivalent. So being for positions that allegedly support the LBGTIA? movement is popular. But as Charlie Wilson commented in the movie Charlie Wilson's War, "But congressmen aren't elected by voters,they're elected by contributors, and mine are in, well, New York, Florida, Hollywood, because I'm one of Israel's guys on the Hill." Charlie was from Texas.

Once you understand these two things, the motivation behind a lot of these silly bills is easy. The critter in question can tell his/her voters "Well I tried, the silly courts killed it. Re-elect me so we can appoint better judges...."

"In today’s ruling, the FCC denies requests from mass-texting companies and other parties to classify text messaging services as “telecommunications services” subject to common carrier regulation under the Communications Act—a classification that would limit wireless providers’ efforts to combat spam and scam robotexts effectively. Instead, the FCC finds that two forms of wireless messaging services, SMS and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), are "information services" under the Communications Act. With this decision, the FCC empowers wireless providers to continue taking action to protect American consumers from unwanted text messages. "

Plain English reading seems to imply the FCC didn't take the action the mass marketers wanted them to take.

Or were SMS and MMS not defined as anything prior to this apparent non action?

I know that hate for the FCC is in vogue right now but I still think they got this one correct.

Wonder if anyone has bothered to contact the FBI IT folks? Not the managers but the low level folks that actually do the backups and store the tapes. IT folks performing backups often have "off the books" backups just in case or even for CYA reasons. I seem to recall similar "We can't find the records" responses from IRS officials a few years back and that many of the records magically appeared when the IT folks were contacted directly.

As I read this, the FCC voted NOT to change something the mass spammers wanted changed. As it is now, the cell providers CAN block messages they believe are spam. If the service was reclassified, the cell providers would be legally prevented from blocking spam. I think the FCC got this one right.

From TFA, the officer knew who the driver was, that her brother had an active warrant, and thought the passenger matched the description of the person with an active warrant. Seems that alone would justify a stop to verify the passenger's identity and if confirmed as brother with a warrant place him in custody. Better would have been to pull in behind the car while it was parked and perform the check. Likely the brother would have taken off running and solved the problem.

The whole 'Smelled Marijuana" thing stinks but is likely to go up in smoke with the passage of the latest farm bill that legalized the growing of hemp. Bet it isn't long before we have hemp based incense to give homes "That aromatic smell of real Pot." Or will we have cops claiming they can smell the difference between low level THC in industrial hemp and high level THC in drug level pot?

If you own and/or use a personalized tracking device(PTD), don't act surprised when you are tracked. Sadly, too many things are becoming PTDs. Used to be primarily smartphones. Now cars, TVs, Blue Ray players, watches, and even scooters are PTDs. Pretty much anything with 'Smart' in its description is probably a PTD.

The last I read, you could have your weapon in your car while on campus but not on your person. Lets the commuters carry while traveling to/from campus. Hard to keep up, the legi-critters make frequent changes.

Maybe the ISU student association should develop its own Logo, trademark it and use it exclusively for all student scheduled activities.

She used the unapproved gizmo at crime scenes and no one there noticed the wrong device? What does this say about the other investigators on scene?

It is very likely her supervisor knew and had tacitly approved her using the thing as a way to get the job done because purchasing wouldn't approve a new approved gizmo. Of course, once the crap hit the fan, said supervisor all of a sudden forgot said verbal approval. If the supervisor didn't know, we have to wonder what else is out of whack in that lab.

Who really needs to be criticized is the Transition Team put in place after the election. One of the first things made clear in the early meetings on "So you are about to be in the White House" should have been NO FRACKING PRIVATE EMAIL SERVERS. Especially considering HRC's misuse of email was one of Trump's major campaign points.

So far Ivanka's use doesn't seem nearly as bad as HRC's turned out to be but it does need to be looked at to make sure.

Don't really think the 1st Amendment has anything to do with this. For better or worse, the White House is Trump's residence during his time in office. He can invite or not invite who ever he wants to his residence. Being invited to the White House is a privilege, NOT a right. Behave in a way that irritates the President, get kicked out. Fairly simple time honored concept.